[Gllug] Recommendations for servers

[Christopher Hunter]

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 11:45 +0000, j.roberts wrote:

> May I ask, which models/series of HP one has had difficulties with? I'll 
> look into sticking them on my 'avoid' list?
> 
HP ProLiant DL120 is a model that has recently given me many sleepless
nights, and proved to be a very false economy.  

We were recommended them as being reliable and sensibly priced, but we
found when we bought 40 of them, that several (can't exactly remember
the figure  - five or six) didn't fire up on arrival.  This was found to
be due to a "faulty batch" of power supplies.  

Later, we also had disk failures under warranty, and getting them
replaced was difficult.  Two of them had faulty network I/O, and several
others developed sporadic faults that seemed to be thermal....

The replacement machines (Supermicro 1015B) were more expensive, but
amply demonstrated that "you get what you pay for"!

Chris

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